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Merrill Dean Mahaffey

Merrill Dean Mahaffey (Born 1937) is active/lives in New Mexico, Arizona.  Merrill Mahaffey is known for Rock face landscape, sculpture.

Merrill Mahaffey is a noted Southwestern landscape artist who paints the open, unpopulated, and rugged landscapes of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.  His imagery ranges from postcard-type views of mountains and canyons, to more abstracted studies of jumbled rock slides, to simple but elegant recordings of major public works like Hoover Dam.

His characteristic high-key palette consists of yellows, tans, pinks, and whites, with pale purple and blue shadows. He spends much of his energy on the rhythmic patterns in the colored rock walls, and in the reflections of bodies of water, usually tamed rivers.

Source: AV Fine Arts

Born in Albuquerque , Merrill Mahaffey grew up in Colorado, completed his formal art education in California and Arizona, and has explored and painted the American west the whole time.  Starting out at Sacramento State, Mahaffey was counseled by a slightly older artist to go to the Bay Area if he wanted to be a painter more than a te   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8130 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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